I am every day adding to a most respectable circle of literary connexions, and I hope, a few months after the settlement of your present affairs, to offer shares to you of works in which you will feel it advantageous to engage.

Besides, as I have at present no particular bias, no enormous works of my own which would need all my care, I am better qualified to attend to any that you may commit to my charge; and, being young, my business may be formed with a disposition, as it were, towards yours; and thus growing up with it, we are more likely to form a durable connexion than can be expected with persons whose views are imperceptibly but incessantly diverging from each other.
Should you be determined--_irrevocably_ determined (but consider!) upon the disunion with Messrs.

Longman, I will just observe that when persons have been intimate, they have discovered each other's vulnerable points; it therefore shows no great talent to direct at them shafts of resentment.

It is easy both to write and to say ill-natured, harsh, and cutting things of each other.

But remember that this power is _mutual_, and in proportion to the poignancy of the wound which you would inflict will be your own feelings when it is returned.